The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 15
Simeon 8
After commanding his sons, Simeon slept with his fathers at the age of one hundred and twenty years.
1nd Simeon made an end of commanding his sons, and slept with his fathers, being an hundred and twenty years old.
2 And they laid him in a coffin of incorruptible wood, to take up his bones to Hebron.
3 And they carried them up in a war of the Egyptians secretly: for the bones of Joseph the Egyptians guarded in the treasure-house of the palace; for the sorcerers told them that at the departure of the bones of Joseph there should be throughout the whole of Egypt darkness and gloom, and an exceeding great plague to the Egyptians, so that even with a lamp a man should not recognise his brother.
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After commanding his sons, Simeon slept with his fathers at the age of one hundred and twenty years.
They laid him in a coffin of incorruptible wood intending to take up his bones to Hebron.
They carried the bones up secretly in a war of the Egyptians.
The Egyptians guarded the bones of Joseph in the treasure-house of the palace.
Sorcerers warned that departure of Joseph's bones would bring Egypt darkness and gloom plus a plague so severe a man with a lamp could not recognise his brother.
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